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Population and Ceramic Traditions: Revisiting the Tana Ware of Coastal Kenya (7th-14th Century AD)
£49.00
Author:
Freda Nkirote M'Mbogori
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313702
Paperback:
154pp, Illustrated throughout in black and white
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 89
BAR number:
S2717
This research is a departure from the traditional archaeological pottery analysis in Kenya, where emphasis has been on decorations and... More
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Recent Discoveries and Perspectives in Human Evolution
Papers arising from ‘Exploring Human Origins: Exciting Discoveries at the Start of the 21st Century’ Manchester 2013
£61.00
Editors:
Anek R. Sankhyan
Publication Year:
2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407313726
Paperback:
238pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white
BAR number:
S2719
Sub Title:
Papers arising from ‘Exploring Human Origins: Exciting Discoveries at the Start of the 21st Century’ Manchester 2013
The present volume is based on research articles submitted as part of an international conference Exploring Human Origins: Exciting... More
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Trade in the Western Mediterranean, AD 400-700: The ceramic evidence
£92.00
Author:
Paul Reynolds
Publication Year:
1995
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860547822
Paperback:
466pp, Includes illustrations.
BAR number:
S604
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Il Mediterraneo Occidentale fra XIV ed VIII secolo a.C. / The West Mediterranean between the 14th and 8th Centuries B.C.
Cerchie minerarie e metallurgiche / Mining and metallurgical spheres
£86.00
Author:
Claudio Giardino
Publication Year:
1995
Language:
Italian with English translation of main text
ISBN:
9780860547938
Paperback:
418pp
BAR number:
S612
Sub Title:
Cerchie minerarie e metallurgiche / Mining and metallurgical spheres
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Recherches archéologiques sur la capitale de l’empire de Ghana
Etude d’un secteur d’habitat à Koumbi Saleh, Mauritanie. Campagnes II-III-IV-V (1975-1976)-(1980-1981)
£37.00
Author:
Sophie Berthier
Publication Year:
1997
Language:
French
ISBN:
9780860548683
Paperback:
156pp, Includes 34 plates of maps and drawings, 64 photographs and one plate in colour
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 41
BAR number:
S680
Sub Title:
Etude d’un secteur d’habitat à Koumbi Saleh, Mauritanie. Campagnes II-III-IV-V (1975-1976)-(1980-1981)
Detailed analysis of excavations undertaken at Koumbi Saleh in today’s Mauretania. With stunning results, the author argues that the architectural remains,... More
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The Lower Palaeolithic of the Maghreb
Excavations and analyses at Ain Hanech, Algeria
£41.00
Author:
Mohamed Sahnouni
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548751
Paperback:
180pp, Includes numerous line drawings, three photographs.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 42
BAR number:
S689
Sub Title:
Excavations and analyses at Ain Hanech, Algeria
The excavations at Ain Hanech in Algeria, one of the oldest archaeological sites in North Africa. Includes a report on North African Lower Palaeolithic,... More
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Ethnoarchäologische Studien zum Neolithikum Südwesteuropas
£58.00
Author:
Josef Winiger
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
German with English summeries
ISBN:
9780860549420
Paperback:
250pp, Includes black and white figures
BAR number:
S701
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The Waterberg Plateau in the Northern Province, Republic of South Africa, in the Later Stone Age
£39.00
Author:
Maria M. Van der Ryst
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548935
Paperback:
168pp, Includes 37 figures and 5 photographs
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology (now African Archaeology), 43
BAR number:
S715
The aim of this book is firstly to establish chronology of Later Stone Age settlement in Waterber plateau and secondly to investigate the particular... More
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Papers from the EAA Third Annual Meeting at Ravenna 1997
Volume I: Pre- and Protohistory
£77.00
Editors:
Mark Pearce and Maurizio Tosi with Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, Serge Cleuziou, Alessandro Guidi, Ludmila Koryakova, Pietro Laureano, Manuel Molinos, Mike Rowlands, Nataliya Shishlina, Simon Stoddart, Andrea Zifferero
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860548942
Paperback:
308pp. Includes numerous illustrations and photographs.
BAR number:
S717
Sub Title:
Volume I: Pre- and Protohistory
Papers in this volume are grouped under following headings: Oases and other forms of agricultural intensification; The visibility of... More
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Elites y organización de la religión en las provincias romanas de la Bética y las Mauritanias: sacerdotes y sacerdocios
£64.00
Author:
José A. Delgado Delgado
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
Spanish
ISBN:
9780860549628
Paperback:
282pp
BAR number:
S724
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Cultural Succession and Continuity in S.E. Nigeria
Excavations in Afikpo
£29.00
Author:
V. Emenike Chikwendu with contributions by M.O.E. Iwala, S.G.H. Daniels, D.C. Nwankiti and A.C. Onyeagocha
Publication Year:
1998
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549215
Paperback:
116pp, Includes black and white photos and line drawings.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 44
BAR number:
S734
Sub Title:
Excavations in Afikpo
Excavations at the Ugwuagu Rockshelter and the Ugwuagu Abandoned Village Sites, all in Afikpo, form the basis of this book. The excavations were carried out... More
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Diving up the Human Past
Perspectives of maritime archaeology, with specific reference to developments in South Africa until 1996
£53.00
Author:
Bruno E. J. S. Werz
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549833
Paperback:
232pp, Includes several figures.
BAR number:
S749
Sub Title:
Perspectives of maritime archaeology, with specific reference to developments in South Africa until 1996
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Case Studies in Archaeology and World Religion
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference
£47.00
Editors:
Timothy Insoll
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549567
Paperback:
187pp. Includes numerous photographs and drawings.
BAR number:
S755
Sub Title:
The Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference
Each of the twenty papers presented in this book is a case study utilising archaeological research, or the results thereof, as a means of... More
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The Emergence of Food Production in Ethiopia
£60.00
Author:
Tertia Barnett
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549710
Paperback:
237pp, Includes numerous drawings, maps and tables.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 45
BAR number:
S763
This book, based on reviews of existing evidence and on original ethnographic and archaeological data, addresses the issue of when, how... More
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Sociétés préhistoriques et Mégalithes dans le Nord-Ouest de la République Centrafricaine
£59.00
Author:
Étienne Zangato
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
French
ISBN:
9780860549802
Paperback:
231pp, Includes 126 figures with 24 black and white photos
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 46
BAR number:
S768
The north-east of the Central African Republic and the east of Cameroon were the only geographical zones in central Africa to have... More
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Ethnohistoric Archaeology of the Mukogodo in North-Central Kenya
Hunter-gatherer subsistence and the transition to pastoralism in secondary settings
£29.00
Author:
Kennedy K. Mutundu
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780860549901
Paperback:
116pp, Includes line drawings, maps, tables.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 47
BAR number:
S775
Sub Title:
Hunter-gatherer subsistence and the transition to pastoralism in secondary settings
This study addresses the issue of recent hunter-gatherer subsistence and adoption of herding through excavation and analysis of archaeological material from... More
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Metals in Antiquity
£91.00
Editors:
Suzanne M. M. Young, A. Mark Pollard, Paul Budd and Robert A. Ixer
Publication Year:
1999
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841710082
Paperback:
364pp. Includes numerous illustrations and photographs, 4 coloured plates.
BAR number:
S792
The book includes 43 papers which deal with various aspects of metals, metallurgy and metalworking in antiquity. Areas covered stretch... More
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Ethno-Archaeology in Jenné, Mali
Craft and status among smiths, potters and masons
£40.00
Author:
Adria LaViolette
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841710433
Paperback:
156pp, Includes 41 plates with black and white photographs, maps
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 49
BAR number:
S838
Sub Title:
Craft and status among smiths, potters and masons
This is an ethnoarcaheological study exploring social and economic lives of specialized producers: blacksmiths, potters and masons,... More
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Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers
An enduring frontier in the Caledon Valley, South Africa
£29.00
Author:
Carolyn  R. Thorp
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841710617
Paperback:
104pp, Includes 34 figures and maps
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 50
BAR number:
S860
Sub Title:
An enduring frontier in the Caledon Valley, South Africa
The book investigates the effects on huter-gatherers of a hypothesised frontier with agriculturalists in the Caledon Valley. The frontier hypothesis was... More
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The Years without Summer
Tracing A.D. 536 and its aftermath
£45.00
Editors:
Joel D. Gunn
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841710747
Paperback:
176pp. Illustrated with maps, charts and line drawings.
BAR number:
S872
Sub Title:
Tracing A.D. 536 and its aftermath
“In the fall season of A.D. 536 Cassiodorus sat at his writing table…..” So Joel D. Gunn begins this interesting and unusual topic of... More
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Museums, Archaeologists and Indigenous People
Archaeology and the public in Nigeria
£49.00
Author:
Pamela Ifeoma Eze-Uzomaka
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712000
Paperback:
220pp. Includes 27 figures, 16 tables, 22 plates
BAR number:
S904
Sub Title:
Archaeology and the public in Nigeria
The main aim of this study is to examine the methods through which the managers of Nigeria's past have presented the country's heritage to the Nigerian... More
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The Kintampo Complex
The Late Holocene on the Gambaga Escarpment, Northern Ghana
£45.00
Author:
Joanna Casey
Publication Year:
2000
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712024
Paperback:
176pp, Includes 80 figures, maps, plans, line drawings, 32 tables.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 51
BAR number:
S906
Sub Title:
The Late Holocene on the Gambaga Escarpment, Northern Ghana
The Kintampo Complex is the first settled, sub-Sahelian complex in West Africa, and central to our understanding of West African... More
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Catalogo delle Lucerne di Tolemaide (Cirenaica)
£23.00
Author:
Emanuela Fabbricotti
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
Italian with an English abstract and resume
ISBN:
9781841711829
Paperback:
90pp, Includes 20 black and white plates
BAR number:
S962
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The Middle and Later Stone Ages in the Mukogodo Hills of Central Kenya
A comparative analysis of lithic artefacts from Shurmai (GnJm1) and Kakwa Lelash (GnJm2) rockshelters
£29.00
Author:
G-Young Gang
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712512
Paperback:
109pp, Includes 34 figures, maps and illustrations, 34 tables
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 52
BAR number:
S964
Sub Title:
A comparative analysis of lithic artefacts from Shurmai (GnJm1) and Kakwa Lelash (GnJm2) rockshelters
This monograph (in the series Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology) compares lithic materials excavated from Shumai and Kakwa... More
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State-Periphery Relations and Sociopolitical Development in Igbominaland, North-Central Yoruba, Nigeria
Oral-ethnohistorical and archaeological perspectives
£51.00
Author:
Aribidesi Adisa Usman
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841711942
Paperback:
220pp, Includes 84 black and white figures, 40 tables
BAR number:
S993
Sub Title:
Oral-ethnohistorical and archaeological perspectives
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Darfur (Sudan) In the Age of Stone Architecture c. AD 1000 - 1750
Problems in historical reconstruction
£46.00
Author:
Andrew James McGregor
Publication Year:
2001
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841712857
Paperback:
183pp, Includes 5 maps, 19 plates.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 53
BAR number:
S1006
Sub Title:
Problems in historical reconstruction
Volume 53 in the series of Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology focuses on the old sultanate of Darfur, in the westen part of... More
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Ein Töpferort in Nordwest-Marokko aus Ethnoarchäologischer Perspektive
£35.00
Author:
Silke Schierenbeck
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
German
ISBN:
9781841713014
Paperback:
148pp, Includes 94 black and white illustrations, black and white figures, tables
BAR number:
S1012
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Holocene Foragers, Fishers and Herders of Western Kenya
£47.00
Author:
Karega-Munene
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841714172
Paperback:
187pp, Includes numerous figures, maps and tables.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 54
BAR number:
S1037
The problem of subsistence has received little attention in East African archaeology. Various models of human subsistence strategies have... More
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Political Economy and Settlement Systems of Medieval Northern Morocco
An archaeological-historical approach
£35.00
Author:
Said Ennahid
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841714394
Paperback:
136pp. Includes 38 figures, tables
BAR number:
S1059
Sub Title:
An archaeological-historical approach
The field of Islamic archaeology in Morocco has grown substantially during the last two decades. The establishment of the Institut... More
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Archaeology and History in Ìlàrè District (Central Yorubaland, Nigeria) 1200-1900 A.D.
£43.00
Author:
Akinwumi O. Ogundiran
Publication Year:
2002
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841714684
Paperback:
171pp, Includes 42 tables, 47 figures, maps, plans and drawings, 27 black and white plates, 16-page bibliography, Index
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 55
BAR number:
S1090
The focus of this study (number 55 in the Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology) is the impact of developments from the 13th-19th... More
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Ethnoarchaeology in the Zinder Region, Republic of Niger
The site of Kufan Kanawa
£41.00
Author:
Anne Haour
Publication Year:
2003
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841715063
Paperback:
165pp, Includes 58 figures, maps, plans, drawings, photographs (including 5 in colour), 13 tables.
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 56
BAR number:
S1133
Sub Title:
The site of Kufan Kanawa
The need for archaeological research in the Hausa area is very real. What work has been done is often casual and cursory. Considering... More
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Medial Mandibular Ramus
Ontogenetic, idiosyncratic, and geographic variation in recent Homo, great apes, and fossil hominids
£32.00
Author:
Gary D. Richards, Rebecca S. Jabbour, John Y. Anderson
Publication Year:
2003
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841713335
Paperback:
124pp, Includes black and white figures
BAR number:
S1138
Sub Title:
Ontogenetic, idiosyncratic, and geographic variation in recent Homo, great apes, and fossil hominids
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Le Capsien typique et le Capsien supérieur
Évolution ou contemporanéité. Les données technologiques
£81.00
Author:
Noura Rahmani Avec préface de Jacques Tixier
Publication Year:
2003
Language:
French with English abstract
ISBN:
9781841715537
Paperback:
321pp, Includes 243 figures, maps, plans, tables, drawings illustrations
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 57
BAR number:
S1187
Sub Title:
Évolution ou contemporanéité. Les données technologiques
Volume 57 in the Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology focuses on the problems of chronological interpretation of two “faciès” from... More
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Belief in the Past
The Proceedings of the 2002 Manchester Conference on Archaeology and Religion
£35.00
Editors:
Timothy Insoll
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841715759
Paperback:
138pp. Illustrated throughout with plans, maps, photographs, tables and figures.
BAR number:
S1212
Sub Title:
The Proceedings of the 2002 Manchester Conference on Archaeology and Religion
This book includes papers from the proceedings of the Manchester Conference on Archaeology and Religion held at Ashburne Hall, The... More
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Fortifications et urbanisation en Afrique orientale
£94.00
Author:
Stéphane Pradines
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781841715766
Paperback:
378pp, Includes 288 figures, tables, maps, plans, photographs, drawings
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 58
BAR number:
S1216
The subject in this, Number 58 of the series of Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, is the range of fortifications on the East... More
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'Out of Africa'
An investigation into the earliest occupation of the Old World
£33.00
Author:
Marco Langbroek
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716046
Paperback:
128pp. Includes 14 figures, plates, maps, drawings, 5 appendices including databases.
BAR number:
S1244
Sub Title:
An investigation into the earliest occupation of the Old World
In this work, the author aims to arrive at a meaningful frame of reference for the earliest occupation of Eurasia. The basis for this... More
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Archaeology and Geoarchaeology of the Mukogodo Hills and Ewaso Ng'iro Plains, Central Kenya
£22.00
Author:
Frederic Pearl
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716077
Paperback:
76pp, Includes 4 tables, 18 figures, plates, maps, drawings
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 59
BAR number:
S1247
Since 1996, the author has been involved with a cultural, archaeological, and geological survey of the Mukogodo Hills and Ewaso Ng'iro... More
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Religious Motifs in Meroitic Painted and Stamped Pottery
£45.00
Author:
Ahmed Abuelgasim Elhassan
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841713779
Paperback:
190pp, Includes illustrations, 1 map.
BAR number:
S1285
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Islamic Archaeology in the Sudan
£43.00
Author:
Intisar Soghayroun Elzein
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716398
Paperback:
169pp, Includes 11 maps, 94 figures, plans, drawings, 15 black and white plates
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 60
BAR number:
S1289
The Middle Nile Basin, which is in effect the present Republic of the Sudan, from the 7th century CE accepted Islam through influences... More
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The Spatial Analysis of Radiocarbon Databases
The spread of the first farmers in Europe and of the fat-tailed sheep in Southern Africa
£75.00
Author:
Thembi M. Russell
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716442
Paperback:
295pp. Includes 125 figures, 31 tables, 9 Appendices of sites and databases
BAR number:
S1294
Sub Title:
The spread of the first farmers in Europe and of the fat-tailed sheep in Southern Africa
This work analyses two spatially referenced radiocarbon databases for the spread of Europe's first farmers and for the spread of the... More
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An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Iron-Smelting Practices among the Pangwa and Fipa in Tanzania
£45.00
Author:
Randi Barndon
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716572
Paperback:
189pp, Includes 11 figures, maps and plans, 31 plates, 5 Appendices of glossaries, chronologies sites and other data
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 61
BAR number:
S1308
This work is a comparative study of iron smelting practices among the Pangwa and Fipa peoples of Tanzania. The author discusses local... More
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Gestion des matières premières et comportements techniques dans le Middle Stone Age africain
Les assemblages lithiques de la grotte du Porc-Épic (Dire Dawa, Éthiopie)
£53.00
Author:
David Pleurdeau
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781841713861
Paperback:
210pp. Includes 84 black and white figures, 122 tables
BAR number:
S1317
Sub Title:
Les assemblages lithiques de la grotte du Porc-Épic (Dire Dawa, Éthiopie)
Les assemblages lithiques de la grotte du Porc-Épic (Dire Dawa, Éthiopie) More
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Steatite Vessel Manufacture in Eastern North America
£49.00
Author:
James Truncer
Publication Year:
2004
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841716718
Paperback:
196pp. Includes 92 figures, maps, plans, drawings, 37 tables, appendices of analyses including MURR data
BAR number:
S1326
In temperate eastern North America, steatite vessels have an unusual distribution - widespread (ranging from New Brunswick, Canada to... More
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Imperialist Archaeology in the Canary Islands
French and German Studies on Prehistoric Colonization at the End of the 19th Century
£37.00
Author:
A. José Farrujia de la Rosa
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841713946
Paperback:
156pp
BAR number:
S1333
Sub Title:
French and German Studies on Prehistoric Colonization at the End of the 19th Century
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Determining the Antiquity of Dog Origins
Canine domestication as a model for the consilience between molecular genetics and archaeology
£29.00
Author:
Michelle J. Raisor
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718095
Paperback:
105pp. Includes 6 tables, 25 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs including 4 in colour
BAR number:
S1367
Sub Title:
Canine domestication as a model for the consilience between molecular genetics and archaeology
Archaeologists have favoured a date of 14,000-15,000 years before present (BP) for canine domestication. However, recent studies of mutations in the... More
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Archaeology and History in North-Western Benin
£46.00
Author:
Lucas Pieter Petit
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718378
Paperback:
181pp, Includes 7 tables, 8 maps, 92 figures, plans, drawings and photographs, site Gazetteer
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 62
BAR number:
S1398
This work offers a comprehensive historical framework of north-western Benin, West Africa, based on intensive survey work and controlled... More
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Kbor Klib and the Battle of Zama
An analysis of the monument in Tunisia and its possible connection with the battle waged between Hannibal and Scipio in 202BC
£26.00
Author:
Duncan Ross
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781841718385
Paperback:
89pp. Includes 64 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs including 5 colour photographs
BAR number:
S1399
Sub Title:
An analysis of the monument in Tunisia and its possible connection with the battle waged between Hannibal and Scipio in 202BC
In the remote countryside of north-central Tunisia, between the cities of Siliana and Le Kef, stands a ruined stone structure known as... More
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Traditions céramiques, Identités et Peuplement en Sénégambie
Ethnographie comparée et essai de reconstitution historique
£41.00
Author:
Moustapha Sall
Publication Year:
2005
Language:
French
ISBN:
9781841718507
Paperback:
166pp, Includes 82 figures, maps, plans, drawings and photographs, 14 tables
Sub-series name:
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 63
BAR number:
S1407
Sub Title:
Ethnographie comparée et essai de reconstitution historique
This study determines the possible connections between the various ceramic traditions of Senegal and Gambia, with special references to... More
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